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Capitalist utopias and financial futures of the US oil and gas industry

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Dr High examines the relationship between private equity investment and the projects envisaged by oil industry entrepreneurs.

Drawing on long-term fieldwork involving almost a decade of interviews and observations, Dr Mette High, Director of the University of St Andrews’ Centre for Energy Ethics, UK, investigates what happens when oil industry entrepreneurs with utopic projects and private equity firms looking to invest come together. In this study centring on Weld County, Colorado – with more than 22,000 active […]

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